Changing object label defaults

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By default, FarCry has an automagic function that determines an object’s label based on properties that contain keywords like title, and name. If it can’t find anything you end up with a UUID (not too pretty).

But if you want to change the label in a less haphazard way what would you do?

  • use blabel="true" attribute on the component property of choice
  • add an afterSave() function to set the label
  • override the autoSetLabel() function in types.cfc

While all of these options work, the simplest way to nominate a specific label is to create a displayLabel.cfm webskin for your content type, as that’s where all the current magic happens :wink:

What do you do?

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I override autosetlabel(). Logic should happen in functions not view templates. IMO.

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Same. autoSetLabel(). In very rare instances I’ve used bLabel (for very simple types with one or two fields and no need for complexity).

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I use bLabel for single string fields, otherwise autoSetLabel() :slight_smile: